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1. bellringer • Fill out your Learning Plan • Please complete your Romeo & Juliet Character Quiz silently…best of luck to ye!

2. Quiz answers • 1. c • 2. d • 3. d • 4. b • 5. b • 6. d • 7. c • 8. c • 9. a • 10. a • 11. a • 12. b • 13. c • 14. d

3. Shakespearean languagethe sonnet Now old desire doth in his deathbed lie,And young affection gapes to be his heir;That fair for which love groaned for and would die, With tender Juliet matched, is now not fair.Now Romeo is beloved and loves again,Alike bewitchèd by the charm of looks;But to his foe supposed he must complain,And she steal love’s sweet bait from fearful hooks. Being held a foe, he may not have accessTo breathe such vows as lovers use to swear,And she as much in love, her means much lessTo meet her new belovèd anywhere;But passion lends them power, time means, to meet, Temp’ring extremities with extreme sweet.

4. notes • A sonnet is: • A lyric poem containing 14 lines • A Shakespearean or Elizabethan sonnet contains: • Three quatrains and a rhyming couplet • A quatrain is: One of three four-line stanzas in a Shakespearean sonnet. • A couplet is: The final two rhyming lines in a Shakespearean sonnet. • Let’s mark these things!!!

5. notes • The Shakespearean sonnet rhyme scheme is: abab, cdcd, efef, gg • HOLD UP! What’s RHYME SCHEME? Let’s figure it out… • The type of meter used in Shakespearean sonnets is: • iambic pentameter. • The meter of a poem is: • its rhythm of accented or unaccented syllables organized into patterns called feet. • An iamb is: • a foot consisting of two syllables, one unaccented (unstressed) and one accented (stressed). An unaccented syllable is identified with a: U

6. Iambic pentameter close up • An iambic foot is an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. The rhythm can be written as: • da DUM • A standard line of iambic pentameter is five iambic feet in a row: • da DUM da DUM da DUM da DUM da DUM

7. And young affection gapes to be his heir

8. notes • Pentameter means: • five feet (pent is Greek root for five). So, each line in a sonnet contains five iambs. • 10 syllables per line in a Shakespearean sonnet • *Why iambic pentameter: • -  Because it reflects the natural rhythm of the human heartbeat • -  Because it is the rhythm most common to our natural way of speaking.

9. Let’s practice with sonnet 116 Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark 
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks 
Within his bending sickle's compass come: 
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, 
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
   If this be error and upon me proved,
   I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

10. homework • 1. Review the characters in R & J • 2. Review your notes on sonnets. You will be responsible for knowing all of the bolded terms.